. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. DEPARTMENT OF THE PENSION OFFICE. 24S 244 POLITICAL HISTORY OF close of each session of Congress ii,ooo copies of the laws justpassed.
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. DEPARTMENT OF THE PENSION OFFICE. 24S 244 POLITICAL HISTORY OF close of each session of Congress ii,ooo copies of the laws justpassed. Like all the other Departments, this is divided intoBureaus and Divisions devoted to certain duties, that the entirework of the Department may be carried on in an orderly the most important is the GENERAL LAND OEFICE.—This was a part of theTreasury Department until the creation of the Interior Depart-ment. Quite early, the matter of disposing of the Public landsbecame important, and a Land office was created by act of April25, 1812. This question of selling public lands and disposingof the proceeds was for over half a century actively political, andnot until the passage of the Homestead laws, beginning in 1862,did a satisfactory method of dealing with them exist. The duties of the General Land Office are attended to by aCommissioner, who acts under the Secretary of the duties relate to the surveying and plotting of publiclands, their sale
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